sils
\sil\
The verdict
“sils” is uncommon French (frequency #55,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,598
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sils · sils · French
sils · rank #55,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,598
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sibérien
Nearest frequency peer: sibérien (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sils »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sfar
Sfar
44,406 corpus weight
- showroom
showroom
44,405 corpus weight
- sibérien
sibérien
44,404 corpus weight
- sils
sils
44,403 corpus weight
- snapdragon
snapdragon
44,401 corpus weight
- SNK
SNK
44,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sils » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sils » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sils is uncommon French at frequency #55,598 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sil.".
sils has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sils, spelled S-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sil.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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